After overwriting in home-folder ~/.kde/shared/config/ file kwinrc with the one from a new user, beryl looks very fine

Maybe it's "Translucency" making trouble...

wegface hat folgendes geschrieben::

I did find it was i had destop icons swiched off. Turned them back on in kcontrol AND restarted x/kde and then beryl plays nice. I'm sure someone did mention this a while back but i didnt restart kde or x to confirm this worked. This obviously may not be your problem but worth a try.

_________________And I ain't got no worries 'cause I ain't in no hurry at all (Doobie Brothers, "Black Water").

Hadschi

Titel:Verfasst am: 16.10.2006, 20:28 Uhr

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hello arohrmann,
its possible you can post your kwinrc, which work with beryl?
On my desktop beryl starts fine, but in every window I start the window is black, and black fonts on black backround is very bad to read!
hadschi

hello arohrmann,
its possible you can post your kwinrc, which work with beryl?
On my desktop beryl starts fine, but in every window I start the window is black, and black fonts on black backround is very bad to read!
hadschi

Just tried to install beryl today with the entry above in my sources.list, but there seems to be no package beryl.

Has anyone had the same problem when trying to install beryl today?

makke

Titel:Verfasst am: 21.10.2006, 13:52 Uhr

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try "apt-get update"

jack--ren

Titel:Verfasst am: 21.10.2006, 15:53 Uhr

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makke hat folgendes geschrieben::

try "apt-get update"

I already did before i tried to install beryl.

hschn

Titel:Verfasst am: 21.10.2006, 16:54 Uhr

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Do apt-get update again! Now it works

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hschn hat folgendes geschrieben::

Do apt-get update again! Now it works

Ok , now it works.
Beryl and beryl related packges get installed, but when i start beryl-manager , a get a blank-screen then the nvidia-logo (beta-driver) and then a get the kde-login screen.
When I login there is no beryl-icon and nothing seems to have changed.
I tried this several times, always same result, what went wrong?

h2

Titel:Verfasst am: 21.10.2006, 20:42 Uhr

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For beryl users, du-fixes-h2.sh now offers nvidia install with -c option, to make beta driver install possible while still backing up your xorg.conf etc safely.

PS yesterday i new installed Kanotix 2006-01-RC4, did dist-upgrade, installed several programs and after that i installed Beryl

jack--ren

Titel:Verfasst am: 22.10.2006, 17:17 Uhr

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So I have to remove beryl* emerald emerald-themes and nvidia-driver and then reinstall them in the order you told me above hschn?

ps how do I uninstall the nvidia-beta-driver, just use install-nvidia-debian.sh -u ?

hschn

Titel:Verfasst am: 22.10.2006, 17:43 Uhr

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i only installed the nvidia-beta-driver again without uninstall

maybe it`s necessary to do first update-scripts-kanotis.sh

greets and good luck

shame

Titel:Verfasst am: 23.10.2006, 02:45 Uhr

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I've been running xgl/compiz for a few days which I installed via the install-compiz.sh script and it's been working well but I've been using beryl in suse and it has more features and options so I just upgraded to beryl on kanotix but I'm having a few problems.

I followed the instructions here and installed beryl and emerald then reinstalled the nvidia beta driver and running "beryl-manager" put the icon in my tray but didn't autmatically start the window manager so I closed it and tried running "beryl". This displayed the splash and started up beryl and fully so I added it to my .kde/Autostart.
I rebooted and it was working ok and autostarted.
However, after my next reboot I was left at the login prompt and there was no login screen. I typed startx and it went into kde but beryl started up and there were no window decorations.
At this point various compinations of "beryl" "beryl-manager && beryl" are starting it up but every other time it fails and I get this message

Code:

Initiating splash
sh: line 5: gdb: command not found

[CRASH_HANDLER]: "/tmp/beryl_crash-3555.out" created!

** (beryl-manager:3495): WARNING **: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients

My more major concern is that X won't start automatically. There are no errors in /var/log/X.0.log

Ok I removed all the beryl and emerald stuff and reinstalled them then reinstalled nvidia-beta.
Now kdm starts up but when I run beryl I just get the white screen thing and no desktop and when I run beryl-manager I get this

It's ok, I worked it out. I needed to run install-compiz.sh with the -u flag to uninstall it then install beryl again and I just added an entry for bery-manager in .kde/autostart and it all works perfectly.